Kang Hoon-sik, candidate for the Democratic Party’s leader [사진 제공: 연합뉴스]
Democratic Party leader Kang Hoon-sik announced his midway resignation, and the election of the party leader at the National Convention will be held in a bilateral confrontation between Lee Jae-myung and Park Yong-jin.
Candidate Hoon-sik Kang held an emergency press conference at the National Assembly this afternoon and said, “I will stop challenging the party leader today.” said.
Candidate Kang said, “The challenge to become the party leader stops here, but the thoughts and steps to make our Democratic Party into a broader and stronger party, a younger and more capable party with authority, and a unified party where diversity and differences coexist, are busier,” Kang said. , we have to work harder,” he said.
Then, when asked about unification with Candidate Park Yong-jin, he drew a line, saying, “I said that I could not lead the Democratic Party by unification of the name alone.” “The choice of party members and supporters remains.
It is their share.”
In the Democratic Party’s presidential election so far, the cumulative voter turnout for the right party members is 73.28% for Lee Jae-myung, 19.90% for Park Yong-jin, and 6.83% for Kang Hoon-sik.